Kubota L285 Water Pump

[paulsharvey]

Anyone ever replace the water pump on a Kubota L285 or similar? Do you need to remove the air filter housing and radiator? Any tricks to getting fan off the front of the pump? Better to get fan off first, then remove water pump, or get the whole thing off, then fan? I started tonight, only to find my 13mm wrench grew legs and walked away....

 

[paulsharvey]

I case anyone in future runs across this; loose fan shroud, 4 or 6 10mm bolts, loose 4 13mm nuts on water pump (need wrench, no room for sockets), work the shroud, fan, and water pump out as a group, I removed radiator hose to thermostat housing to get extra room. Then of coarse back out one of the water pump studs out, drop it in the crevice under front of tractor, curse, order a magnetic parts picker, then reverse to reassemble.